Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tip of the Iceberg

I am struggling with the goals I sent last week. It has been a rough week in some ways. Missy is dealing with the changes to childcare the past few weeks. We are all ready to get her back on her regular old schedule.

M Bug turned EIGHT. Oh my. Hopefully more on that later. He is going through a bit of a growth spurt. Tough one. So much is happening in his world right now... when isn't it? And so I am working hard to be calm and speak softly to him. He is my extraordinarily sensitive soul who feels and see things that others do not seem to.

Spring keeps rearing its beautiful soft soul into our lives and then old man winter seemingly grumbles back to life and we are left with warm and cold moments. I do not mind them and yet I am ready for a consistent weather pattern.

Monday was 70, sunny, with a mild breeze. Missy and I spent our day riding bikes, coloring out on the front porch, swinging in the yard, enjoying the sunshine. I have already sadly counted the months till she will be five. Just three and a week or so.

We have gone back and forth about schooling. She is signed up full time for pre-school through the program M Bug attended that we loved and she is the school we wanted her to be. However, on Monday, she and I spent the morning at her "home" school filling out the petition and Kindergarten paperwork. Either way, our Mondays together will end after the summer. I have loved these days. I would not give them back for anything. There were moments but mostly they were soft sweet floating rolling days that I have felt lucky enough to enjoy. I always knew they would come to an end and so I cherished them over the past two years.

I looking forward to a focus again on my job. I love it as much as I often hate and the fact that I know I am good at what I do is a difference. I am a more confident person at work that I once was and so I am looking forward to applying that confidence.

Sadly I have had to step away from running a bit. Some new painful foot issue. I had big goals for Cincinnati and I still have those but I will be playing it more my ear. I have had to cut back on some training and muddle my way through the rest of it. I am excited to be done with half marathon training as I feel like this is the time to get healthy. The do no harm motto can be applied here. I have been interested to lose about ten pounds and get more lean in various areas but especially my tummy from my babies. I know if I give myself the time to get healthy and work on lean muscle mass I will have a chance to run some half marathons (or even just A marathon) in the fall.

Finally, we are still hemming and hawing over the flooring. We know what we want to do and with what materials but it is a matter of hiring the right person AND making the time to tear our house apart.

I am looking forward to our gardens this year. I neglected those last year as it got so hot to quickly. We are doing something different. Herbs and fun new veggies. I am planning to do some new flowers both from seed and starts. I missed gardening last year. Plus mulch. MULCH... Grrr... love/hate!

I have a goal to get the basement furnished by the end of the summer. I want to move the television/gaming systems/etc downstairs and take back that play area that is not really played in any more. We will complete the painting we started last summer... gaw. How awful to wait to so long! We will be staining the back deck and Kevin has some major repair work to do on the back patio plus I asked him to build in seating there since the drop is huge! I want to patch up some trim inside and out and actually hang the nine million pictures I have. I am excited to hit Ikea too.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. So so so much more... for now. I am off to bed.

About Me

Bug #1: M Bug

He is a character - he loves to tell jokes and dance around like a goofball shaking his rump!

Hanging with his buddies

Playing computer games and board games - he is fiercely competitive

He will sit down and read a book cover to cover as quickly as possible

His fear of storms is still a huge part of our lives - he's a worrier

BUT he kind of loves the weather and science

School - he really loves school; his teachers have all told me if they could have a classroom filled with kids like him their jobs would be easy!

Bug #2: Missy

She is eight!

She is in grade three

Anything M Bug is doing much to his annoyance

She is a crafty artsy little soul - she will draw pictures and wants to write stories out of the blue

She will wear a dress while playing basketball with scrapes on her knees and a bow in her hair - a girl after my own heart!Sports include softball and hockey

She is a Girl Scout and proud of it!

She is tough as nails when she needs to be

She loves to be the absolute center of attention giggling and grinningGirl has a wicked smile and lights up a room with her giggleShe is ALL fiery red head!She is hard headed and won't kindly accept help and yet in the same breath she can be as sweet as can be

She's a talker - I have no idea where she gets that from...

Lucy and Bolt

They are DOGS of our house. Lucy is an 13 year old black & white mutt lab terrier (WHAT?!) mix that we rescued from the pound when we first moved into town. She is the sweetest most kindest dog I have ever known in my entire life.

Bolt's age is sort up in the air. Let's say 8-ish?? He is a terrier mix (Chihuahua maybe?) that we brought home from the same pound just about two years ago. He looks a lot like a JRT and acts like one too. He is mostly white with some black and tan. He thinks he rules the house but little does he know Queen Lucy is in charge. That crazy guy sleeps like a human with his head on a pillow and the covers pulled to his chin (no shit!) and talks to us when he wants to eat - woof, growl woof ;) He's filled the spot in our hearts that sweet Santana left when he died and we could not be happier he came to live in our home with us!